Parenting Support

Families will require support when faced with problems they are unable to overcome on their own. Ideally support should come from existing networks, such as extended family, religious leaders, and neighbours. Where such support is not available or sufficient, additional family and community services are required. Such services are particularly important for kinship, foster and adoptive caretakers, and child headed households in order to prevent separation and address abuse and exploitation of children. It is also vital for children affected by HIV/AIDS and armed conflict, and those children living on the street.

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David Wilkins, Amy Lynch, Vivi Antonopoulou - Child & Family Social Work,

In this study, using paired observations of group supervision and family meetings alongside interviews with parents, the authors explored the link between supervision, practice, and engagement.

Esmeranda Manful & Ebenezer Cudjoe - Child & Family Social Work,

This paper asks the question "what contribution are kin and other informal social support networks providing to the care and safety of children of such families?" The paper presents findings from 15 families receiving services from the Department of Social Welfare in Sekondi, Ghana.

Junhan Cho, Dayoung Bae, Darcey D. Terris, Rachael E. Glisson, Anita Brown - Child & Family Social Work,

The current study examined family and community factors related to home visiting programme engagement in a sample of 1,024 mothers (primary caregivers, mean age 22.89 years) who participated in family support programmes funded through the US state of Georgia's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting programme.

Stina Krogh Petersen - Child & Family Social Work,

This article contributes to a growing body of research that takes the user perspective as its point of departure when conducting research in social work to examine how parents perceive and experience child protection practice.

Barbara H. Chaiyachati, Julie R. Gaither, Marcia Hughes, Karen Foley-Schain, John M. Leventhal - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of voluntary participation in an established statewide home-visiting program for socially high-risk families on child maltreatment as identified by Child Protective Services (CPS). 

Child Family Community Australia (CFCA),

This webinar from Child Family Community Australia (CFCA) was recorded on 14 March 2018. It explored the implications of recent research on women's and children’s experiences of family violence and inter-parental conflict.

Forber-Pratt Ian Anand, Bhandakkar Bhagyashri, Sharma Rajesh, Dattani Maya, Prasad Leena - Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond,

This article is an analysis of a State sponsored scheme in Rajasthan, the Palanhar Yojana, which has been successful in demonstrating the success of the scheme as an instrument of family strengthening.

Karmen Toros, Diana DiNitto, Anne Tiko - Children and Youth Services Review,

This article describes the results of a scoping review to better understand child welfare professionals' and service users' (families' and children's) perspectives on and experiences with family engagement in the child protection system.

Abhishek Pandey, Kerry Littlewood, Larry Cooper, Julie McCrae, Michelle Rosenthal, Angelique Day, Liliana Hernandez - Journal of Women & Aging,

This study utilizes self-report data from one kinship navigator federal demonstration project, which used a randomized control trial, to examine demographic characteristics for grandmothers under and over 55 years of age, whether grandmother caregivers (≥55 years) improve family resilience, social support, and caregiver self-efficacy, and which interventions improved outcomes for grandmothers (≥55 years).

Ainoa Mateos Inchaurrondo, Nuria Fuentes‐Peláez, Crescencia Pastor Vicente, Anna Mundet Bolós - Child & Family Social Work,

The quantitative study presented here contributes knowledge regarding the attitude of professionals towards positive parenting and child participation in professional support of families that are under temporary protection, with the goal of reunification.